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Climate Change is Coming for Your Coffee

Coffee plant in Brazil. Photo: Evan George

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

My drug habit is becoming more expensive thanks to the dangerous duo of climate change and Donald Trump. The cost of coffee keeps going up. I saw firsthand why this is happening back in May on an eye-opening trip to Acre, Brazil, where I toured a couple of farms in the Amazon. One was a …

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California Takes a Stab at Climate and Energy Costs

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

It’s remarkable that with everything else that’s raging, climate and energy bills still managed to dominate the legislative session that just wrapped in Sacramento. After all, the reason lawmakers were still at work this past Saturday — the day after the legislative session was supposed to end — was that negotiations on climate bills pushed …

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